As the NCAA posse of investigators and auditors gallops out west to check out the growing rumored recruiting scandal in Eugene, programs that once were in the cross-hairs of this storied institution are grimacing...

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As the Oregon faithful continue to claim glory while making excuses for their humiliating defeat to Auburn earlier this year, the upcoming 2011 football season looks to be a huge surprise in the making for our feathered friends to the south...

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During this time of the college football offseason when teams have long since wrapped things up, the bored faithful tend to get restless. On Feb. 2, fans watched excitedly as new football recruits signed on with their new teams...

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As the University of Southern California finally gets their appeal of sanctions heard on Saturday, the past history of another storied Pac-10 program may be forcing the hands of those doing the ruling...

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Before the big Tostidos BCS National Championship game featuring the Auburn Tigers vs the Oregon Ducks, fans were treated to stunning pre-game rhetoric so profound that paint peeled from the walls of every living room in America...

On a crisp and hazy Seattle afternoon, with all the momentum sapped from the fledgling Seahawk offense, running back Marshawn Lynch pulled off the most spectacular run of his career exactly when his team had to have it...

After a surprisingly tight slugfest last night on the lower Husky campus, Isaiah Thomas and freshman Terrence Ross dropped the throttle with seven minutes left and the UW basketball machine left the Oregon Ducks in the dust...

Tonight as Seahawk fans are all skippy and happy over their team winning the last spot in the NFL playoffs with an embarrassing 7-9 record, another similar situation keeps popping into mind from 18 years ago...

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With anxious Washington Husky and Nebraska Cornhusker fans bouncing off the walls at homes across the west, giddy with excitement for the opening kickoff of the Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl in San Diego, ESPN's broadcast was nowhere to be found...

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With Seattle ’s hapless Seahawks showing about as much game enthusiasm as a four-year-old getting underwear and socks for Christmas, their expansion big brother Tampa Bay Buccaneers pummeled them senseless...

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One itty-bitty field goal missed right during the midst of a freezing blizzard, and Boise State dropped from the heights of festive hoopla and Rose Bowl parades, clear down to the depths of the “Who the crap cares bowl?” in Las Vegas...

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(GAME RECAP) With his hold on the Seattle starting quarterback job hanging by a Gothic Punk hair, it became déjà vu all over again at Qwest Field. Ghosts of 49er games past haunted the Christmas festivities...

We watched in horror and frustration yesterday as the Seahawks were disemboweled by the hapless and underachieving San Francisco 49ers. And despite Matt Hasselbeck having a terrible game, he did have an excuse...

Yesterday, two nimrod ESPN announcers with bad haircuts and worse suits debated whether the 2010 Oregon Ducks Football team could have beaten the best defensive team to ever walk on the field, the 1991 Washington Huskies...

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